On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Ali Akbar <the.ap...@gmail.com> wrote: > While developing some XML processing queries, i stumbled on an old bug > mentioned in http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#XML: Fix Nested or > repeated xpath() that apparently mess up namespaces. > > Source of the bug is that libxml2's xmlNodeDump won't output XML namespace > definitions that declared in the node's parents. As per > https://bug639036.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=177858, > the behavior is intentional. > > This patch uses function xmlCopyNode that copies a node, including its > namespace definitions as required (without unused namespace in the node or > its children). When the copy dumped, the resulting XML is complete with its > namespaces. Calling xmlCopyNode will need additional memory to execute, but > reimplementing its routine to handle namespace definition will introduce > much complexity to the code. > > Note: This is my very first postgresql patch.
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